Cliff Beauglehole was an orchardist at Portland, Victoria, who throughout hislife took an intense interest in the plants of Victoria. Over his lifetime he collected 90,000 plant specimens as part of a comprehensive study of Victoria's plants and wrote thirteen books under the heading The Distribution and Conservation of Vascular Plants in Victoria, each written to cover the 13 study areas of the Victorian and Conservation Council.A mounted botanical specimen.beauglehole herbarium, herbarium specimen, botany, herbarium, plant science, plant specimen, field naturalists' club ballarat, federation university herbarium, acacia acinacea, fabaceae, gold-dust wattle

Illustrated book with 82 pages of coloured painting of historic ships. Third book of painting, poetry and prose Hardcover - blue with gold embossed text on spine Dust jacket - Illustration of Polly Woodside by authornon-fictionRetired naval officer Dacre Smith presents his paintings of 82 historic Australian ships. Each entry has a colour reproduction of Smith's painting of the ship, along with information about the history of each ship, including steam tugs, fishing vessels, paddle steamers, ferries and many more.historic ships, victoria, sailing, polly woodside, alma doepel, wattle, hmvs cerberus, hmas castlemaine